Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 23:44:37 +0100 From: Andreas Ntaflos <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net> To: Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is fetchmail with Cox possible????? Message-ID: <20020307234437.E94491@Deadcell.ant> In-Reply-To: <20020307223140.14522.qmail@web10002.mail.yahoo.com>; from tomkersten98@yahoo.com on Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:31:40PM -0800 References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0203071239010.3436-100000@corten10.billschoolcraft.com> <20020307223140.14522.qmail@web10002.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:31:40PM -0800, Tom Kersten wrote: > > --- Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> wrote: > > At Thu, 7 Mar 2002 it looks like Tom Kersten > > composed: > > > > > set daemon 300 > > > > > > poll smtp.west.cox.net with protocol POP3: > > > > > > user thomas@mydomain.com there is thomas here mda > > > "/usr/local/bin/procmail -f - " > > > > > I didn't have procmail > installed........wow........anyway, that didn't seem > to solve my problem. I was using sendmail before as my > mda...which is better???? also, any other ideas? I > just can't seem to figure this out... > > thomas > procmail by itself isn't an MDA the way sendmail or postfix or qmail are I think. You can use procmail to filter incoming messages to different mailboxes, that's at least what I use it for. Maybe I am wrong. But what irritates me is the following line: user thomas@mydomain.com there is thomas here mda Maybe the config syntax of fetchmail has changed but I have only 3 lines in my .fetchmailrc and sendmail configured correctly. That's all it needs to work: poll pop.gmx.net protocol pop3 user "4037158" password "XXXXXX" poll pop.gmx.net protocol pop3 user "1580704" password "XXXXXX" set daemon 900 I do not have a fully qualified domain name or anything. See earlier post with configuration for sendmail to masquerade as mail server. That's exactly how it has to be used to have mail downloaded and processed on a normal workstation. Maybe I am completely ignorant and don't know what I am talking about, but my setup works. And that's all we're interested in, having a working setup, isn't it :) ? HTH and good night -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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